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Show - Page 2 THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, Tuesday, April 24, 1984 World Roundup The latest in national and international news from United Press International fill I Be Split About Evacuation Libyans May from its besieged London embassy. But a spokesman said this LONDON (UPI) The police siege at the Libyan Embassy entered its second week today amid reports the militants inside were arguing over whether to obey Britain's expulsion order or stay in the mission until directed to leave did not mean the Libyans would be leaving the embattled ' People s Bureau" by the midnight Sunday deadline Britain set when it broke diplomatic relations with Khadafy's government. "We have no indication yet on the time that they will leave," the spokesman said. "We would hope they will by Col. Moammar Khadafy. Britain's Foreign Office announced that Libya was sending two officials to London to help Khadafy's regime extract diplomats and "students" leave by the time given." aim to bring this to a peaceful conclusion. For the first time in four days, scores of office workers were let through the police barricades of the siege cordon to go to their jobs on streets leading into the square. Business offices directly on the square remained closed. Police said telephone contacts with the Libyans inside the embassy were "continuing when necessary. ' should go in." The diplomatic crisis, which began April 16 when gunfire from the embassy killed a policewoman and wounded 11 others, also appeared to have divided police over the next move should the militants refused to leave by the Sunday deadline. Scotland Yard Chief Supt. John Keyte said Monday, "It would be my view that if they didn't come out by Sunday, we But a spokesman for the siege operation told reporters outside St. James's Square, "I would like to point out that Keyte has no operational involvement either in this incident or at the metropolitan police." "The police operation here is one of containment," said the officer. Department As- sistant Commissioner John 'It remains our Cracknell. V 51 CAC3ACE BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) -Moslem and Christian militiamen exchanged sniper fire and mortar shells across Beirut's Green Line today, killing at least two men and wounding two girls. observation cease-fir- e post erupted into scattered fighting that threatened to eradicate a new buffer zone on the dividing line between Christian east and Moslem west Beirut. Sniper fire killed two men near the Sodeco crossing on the Green Line, Beirut radio said. Moslem militiamen blamed the shooting on Christian gunmen a few yards rare APPLES Press International Nicaraguan rebels said they will turn over 52 Sandinista soldiers captured in the fall of a port two weeks ago to the Costa Rican Red Cross today, and Nicaragua claimed it killed 120 of the guerrillas in recent combat. The prisoner turnover will take place on Nicaraguan territory controlled by the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, bor-or ARDE, near the Costa Rican der post of Trinidad, a rebel spokesman said in San Jose, Costa Rica. He said the 52 Nicaraguan sol diers were taken prisoner when ARDE forces overran the Nicaraguan port of San Juan del Norte two weeks ago. In Managua, the Defense Ministry issued a communique saying that rebels "were repelled by our troops who inflicted 120 deaths DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (UPI) Army troops are patrolling the streets of Santo Domingo to quell rioting over increases in food prices that left five dead and at least 30 injured. More than 100 people were arrested Monday in the worst rioting to hit the Dominican Republic since August 1979 when eight people died and more than 20 were injured in violent protests over gasoline price hikes. Sniper fire crackled late Monday in the streets of the capital where police patrol cars and army jeeps were virtually the only traffic. The clashes in Santo Domingo quickly spread to Santiago, 100 miles north of the capital, and to Ciudad Barahona, 150 miles south, Nicaraguans - NiLAGOS, Nigeria (UPI) geria printed new money, sealed land borders and started searching everyone leaving the country by sea or air for old bills, acting to halt the "deliberate sabotage'' of its currency. Officials said they delivered the new notes to banks today for safekeeping until exchange for the old money begins Wednesday. k The government granted a for changing grace period old notes, called the Naira, but the amount any individual can convert legally was strictly limited to about $7,000 at the official exchange rate. The military government kept the name of its old currency, but is. changing the colors on all the new bills, officials said. In Nigeria, a Naira is worth $1.30 at official rates, but on the black market it brings only 33 cents. "After a painstaking analysis of the current poor state of the economy, the government came to the conclusion that one of the major causes of the country's economic malaise is the deliberate sabotage of the Nigerian currency through large-scal- e illegal trafficking," said Chief of Staff Brig. Tunde Idiagbon in a Monday night broadcast. Idiagbon is the second most powerful man in the military government of Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari, which seized power in a Dec. 31 coup, ousting the govern I CKIXSI Irv HAM Limited time low second mortgage rate gives .... I i, DimRAKXs ft0( U.S.-back- Harry Shlaudeman, the special IBM. Can Kbf kaatkii, m. ,i LCCLUEAT i2&. vntfM Dominica Calls Army To Quell Food Rioting SANTO independently confirmed, also said 19 Sandinista soldiers were killed in fighting in both northern and southern Nicaragua. crisp, Mch Svttt, U.S. envoy to Central America, said in Colombia Monday he was optimistic about ratification of a peace treaty by the Contadora group in Panama City this weekend, but he ducked questions about American military aid to Nicaraguan rebels and the Salvadoran government. and a large number of captured and wounded," in the past week. The report, which could not be IS' C0CG2E3S Several shells crashed into (Christian) residential areas. Nigeria Seals Borders to Halt Currency Sabotage By United IS KIWI ers. 00 15 pack,. MmmmU,m. Moslem western half of the city as ambulances raced to hospitals with wounded civilians and fight- -' away in east Beirut. Mortar shells crashed into east Beirut, wounding two girls as they walked along a side street, a police source said. Sirens wailed throughout the Y" lL M ( Fresh, bunch Sniper Fire Kills Two Along Beirut Green Line Police said a dispute over a lfM (Mm W'S LEX SAUS. you... 3Y' iai-s- ii. L0CKE3 CIIF jf$ai chjia mmm mimm, ov. m. One 7V B. a mob stoned the headquarters of the government Revolutionary Democratic Party. Police spokesman Col. 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